Directorate Change

GUS PLC
25 March 2003

25 March 2003



                                   GUS plc

                             Board appointment

GUS plc, the retail and business services group, is today pleased to announce
the appointment of Craig Smith to the Board.



Craig Smith, who was appointed CEO of Experian North America in June 2000, is
appointed Chairman of Experian worldwide and will join the Board of GUS plc with
immediate effect.



Following today's announcement of the acquisition of the Scorex joint ventures,
John Saunders, CEO of Experian International, takes on additional worldwide
responsibility for Experian's decision support technology and consultancy
services through the creation of a Global Decision Solutions business.



Don Robert, currently Chief Operating Officer of Experian North America,
succeeds Craig Smith as CEO of that business.



Sir Victor Blank, Chairman of GUS, commented:



 'We are delighted to announce Craig's appointment to the Board of GUS today.
Since joining Experian, Craig has played a key role in successfully
repositioning the North American business.  I have every confidence that
Experian, led by the team of Craig, John and Don, will capitalise ever more
effectively on the growth opportunities available to it.'







Enquiries:


GUS
David Tyler             Finance Director                          020 7495 0070
Fay Dodds               Director of Investor Relations


Finsbury
Rupert Younger                                                     020 7251 3801
Rollo Head




The announcement is also available on the GUS web site www.gusplc.com.



Notes to editors:


Craig Smith, 51, was appointed CEO of Experian North America in June 2000.
Before this, he was one of five founding executives of MBNA America Bank and
spent 12 years with the bank from its launch in 1982.  Mr Smith has over 30
years of senior financial services experience and, from 1994 to 2000, ran his
own international management consultancy, Hamilton Partners, specialising in
advising financial services organisations.


John Saunders, 55, was appointed CEO of Experian International in 2000,
following the integration of the company's UK and Rest of World operations.  He
joined Experian in 1983 with substantial experience of credit operations and
direct marketing gained at GUS Home Shopping and Reader's Digest UK.  John went
on to hold several key management positions at Experian before becoming Chief
Executive of its UK operations in 1996.


Don Robert, 43, joined Experian in 2001.  Before that, he served as president of
The First American Corporation's Consumer Information and Services group, where
he created a portfolio of consumer information businesses.  Don was also
previously president of First American CREDCO, the US's largest mortgage credit
reporting company.



About GUS

GUS is a retail and business services group.  We provide information and
customer relationship management services through Experian, multi-channel
retailing and home delivery through Argos Retail Group and luxury goods through
a majority shareholding in Burberry Group plc.



About Experian

Experian provides strategic support to organisations around the world.  It helps
its clients target, acquire, manage and develop profitable customer
relationships.  Experian works with more than 40,000 clients across diverse
industries, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare,
insurance, retail and catalogue, automotive, manufacturing, leisure, utilities,
property, e-commerce and government. Experian has headquarters in Nottingham,
UK, and Costa Mesa, California.  It has a 175-year history and unbroken sales
growth over the past 22 years.  Its 13,000 people support clients in more than
sixty countries.  Annual sales exceed £1.1 billion, of which about two-thirds
come from Experian North America and the balance from Experian International,
mainly the United Kingdom and Continental Europe.


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